Word: trios
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ways and Means is a fairly long-winded farce about a couple of carefree, down-at-heel professional guests and an imperturbable burglar on the Côote d'Azur. Nigel Patrick, Valerie Hobson and Jack Warner, in a trio of spry performances, play it to the hilt...
...ancestor of Trio, Flesh and Fantasy is a splice of three separate stories. Trio, however, is a trilogy, Flesh and Fantasy an anthology. The only things these three tales have in common are a supernatural fizz and heavy-handed direction. Director Julien Duvivier (Un Carnet du Bal, Tales of Manhattan) pioneered the splicing art, but he keeps fantasy firmly earthbound in this 1943 effort. Granted, the writing is usually abominable ("Remember the boatman's song at twilight at Amalfi, the scent of orange blossoms on the road to Damascus," etc., etc.), but the absence of a light touch accentuates triteness...
Police searched the clothing of the trio and found a dozen nameplates from rooms in Thayer, Holworthy, and the Law School. The youths were then turned over to the Cambridge Police...
...performer was Allan Miller, as the Lord Chancellor. Closely molding his style to that of Martyn Greene's, he frolis about the stage without over much ham-bone or jump from character. Starting slowly, he hit his stride in the "Nightmare Song" and earned three encores in the following trio...
...partners in the trio are Peter Ncumann and Barry Morley as Mountararat and Tolloller, respectively. They both seem a bit more leaden than their parts demanded, but generally excellent timing made much of their comedy. Morley even had a good voice. He used it seldom in solos, but added much to the general effect. Unfortunately, Neumann's theatrical equipment does not include singing ability, but his deep voice has a passable range, and the lyrics to his one solo, "When Britain Really Ruled the Waves," are clever enough to support far less vocal talent...